Lec 15

• The great figure in the poetry of the early part of the century was?

  W. B. YEATS
• One of the best-known figures in the second quarter of this century was?

  T. S. Eliot
• The Waste Land (published in 1922) is a long, highly complex poem which brings together a group of characters as different in kind and time as a modern typist and a blind priest of ancient Greece who can see the future
• The language of Dylan Thomas is completely different: full of life, energy and feeling, with great strength and power
• the story of English poetry in the twentieth century is very much a story of?

  individual figures
• Who began writing an important concern of his poetry was to show and honour the nature and character of Ireland and the Irish people?

  W. B. Yeats
• The romantic and patriotic view of many soldiers at the beginning of the war is reflected in one of the most famous poems of?

  Rupert Brook
• Who is possibly the best-known English poet of the First World War?

  Wilfred Owen
• some of the best poems have been written by?

  Seamus Heaney
• The history of English poetry in the twentieth century tends to support the frequent remark that poetry is essentially?

  a private art form.